Environment & Gender Products

Edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, Sam Mickey

Bringing together ecofeminism and ecological literary criticism (ecocriticism), this book presents diverse ways of understanding and responding to the tangled relationships between the personal, social, and environmental dimensions of human experience and expression. Literature and Ecofeminism…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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By Nahid Rezwana

Disasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh emphasizes women’s experiences in cyclone disasters being confined with gendered identity and responsibilities in developing socio-economic conditions with minimum healthcare facilities. The study is situated in the coastal…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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By Martin Hultman, Paul M. Pulé

Around the globe, unfettered industrialisation has marched forth in unison with massive social inequities. Making matters worse, anthropogenic pressures on Earth’s living systems are causing alarming rates of thermal expansion, sea-level rise, biodiversity losses in terrestrial and aquatic…

Paperback – 2019-11-11
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Edited by Mark Shucksmith, David L. Brown

Rural societies around the world are changing in fundamental ways, both at their own initiative and in response to external forces. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies examines the organisation and transformation of rural society in more developed regions of the world, taking an…

Paperback – 2019-08-08
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Edited by Sherilyn MacGregor

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflections and empirical research from leading researchers and practitioners working in this transdisciplinary and transnational academic field. Over the course of the book, these contributors provide…

Paperback – 2019-05-21
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By Paul Hutchings, Richard Franceys, Stef Smits, Snehalatha Mekala

The supply of reliable and safe water is a key challenge for developing countries, particularly India. Community management has long been the declared model for rural water supply and is recognised to be critical for its implementation and success. Based on 20 detailed successful…

Paperback – 2019-04-15
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Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

Edited by Elizabeth Thomas Hope

Global climatic change has resulted in new and unpredictable patterns of precipitation and temperature, the increased frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels. These changes impact all four aspects of food security – availability, accessibility, stability of supply and appropriate…

Paperback – 2019-03-05
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Edited by Jemimah Njuki, John R. Parkins, Amy Kaler

Drawing on studies from Africa, Asia and South America, this book provides empirical evidence and conceptual explorations of the gendered dimensions of food security. It investigates how food security and gender inequity are conceptualized within interventions, assesses the impacts and outcomes of…

Paperback – 2019-02-04
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Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

Edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, Sam Mickey

Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships. In 1974,…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Routledge Environmental Humanities

Edited by Susan Buckingham, Virginie Le Masson

This book explains how gender, as a power relationship, influences climate change related strategies, and explores the additional pressures that climate change brings to uneven gender relations. It considers the ways in which men and women experience the impacts of these in different economic…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

By Tendai Chitewere

Sustainable communities raise questions about the compatibility of capitalism and environmentalism and how we can green our way of life in a capitalist economy that values short-term production and consumption over long-term conservation and simple living. If capitalism and its drive towards…

Paperback – 2019-01-08
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Edited by Elaine Stratford

Islands and their environs – aerial, terrestrial, aquatic – may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings together several emerging and established…

Paperback – 2018-08-14
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Routledge Studies in Human Geography